The Indianapolis journal., 1887-09-26
nal record to be proud of from criminal stand

| Circle The knights always had a warm well
come and a helping hand for friends OF the con-
federate cause. and every federal soldier who
deserted from the Union ranks to join the rebel
army met with open arms and open pocket
books This delectable society held Orange
county absolutely under control for month after
month.
They were under ths leadership of such men as
Bowles, Millgan, Horsey and Quantrell, most of
paroled by Governor Morton and subsequently
pardoned By President johnson. How many
murders attributable to this organization
can never be accurately estimated--it wasn't
called murder in those days.
Again, about 1875, nine of the Reno gang
were lynched, four at Ewing and five at New AL
bany. besides two killed at Scottsburg
Others now in the penitentiary. As Is we'll
known, they were the greatest train AID express
ROBBERS 65 this country ever knew;
The Archer gang, OF which much less IS
known, were exterminated about five years ago.
Three. Martin, Thomas and John, were lynched
at Shoals Sam dangled to tree In Orange
county, and those who did not escape now
serving terms in the penltentiarv. This gang
absolutely controlled southern Indiana for near
ly twenty years.
l saw Sam Archer's old home to-day. The
logs rotting and an depressing air of DESC
lation hangs over all No lives in the old
log house. 1t is the only monument left-and a
fitting one it is-that is suggestive of the deeds
and death OF Sam Archer. There Is one act in
the career of the Archers that has always been
msconstrued. That is the killing OF Bunch,
who betrayed the gang.
Bunch was taken to a thicket about two miles
from French Lick Springs seated on a stone at
the entrance of cave, and shot eighteen times.
A few days after the Archer boys rolled his
body. already badly decomposed, into hog
trough, carried it to burning pile of logs and
completely incinerated it.
Among the many noted marauding gangs
murders and lynchings of late years in southern
Indiana will here mention few, and very
few, when the whole is considered OF the most
notorious. Two unknown men in Orange coun
ty, three negroes Evansville. colored school
teacher for stealing COW in Orange county; a
,,Ha 1vx Hraru fNrd. tryo ot Warn
in Decatur; nine in jackson; five in Martin;
two in Ripley; three in Clark; three in Law
renee; five in Fiovd; two in Washington, and
three in Vanderburg are all lynchings within
the memory of the present generation
The killing of three men at Tunnelton by
so-called vigilance committee is yet warm, the
murder of the marshal of Bedford and nine
other assassinations by desperadoes for robbery
revenge, and at least twenty more unprovoked
killings in about decade is the record.
Then there were the desperate Ifodman gang
of Jennings county. horse thieves and murderers;
the Bass gang. afterwards 30 notorious in Texas;
the Lewis, OF Ripley and the Kinders, of Craw-
ford. counterfeiters Fosters gang of horse
thieves at Ripley. the Yarnalds, the Under
woods and others who have left this country the
unenviable name 1t bears.
The facts are given to show that the White
Caps are but the progeny of lawlessness and
crime.
French Lick townshipper has Just brought
in word that Squire Crow, justice of the peace.
has been whipped because he would pay q
debt This is verified in my mind only to the
extent that / know he received notification re-
Gently that whipping was in store for him.
Frank Smith. son of esddler, OF English,
has just been run through the White Cap thresh-
ing machine land he looks like it) because he
didn't work to suit them.
William Landreas. commissioner of Craw-
ford county. notified to change his course
in a certain way. Like the man of sense he is,
he changed il.
Joe Mcdonald didn't find farm to suit him,
and moved several times in year He will not
move again until he RECEIVERS from White Cap
whipping, and probably not then, as he has
been notified to stay in one house
Bud Brown, of Valence, stands up and eats
his meals off the wall bracket He don't know
why he was whipped but he is painfully con-
scious that he
/ met a man to-day moving his family in a big
wagon. Asked where he going. he said:
I'm goin' to get outer this allf rotten coun-
try. Can't raise anything but h-ll down here"
/ heard since, from reliable authority, that he
was class leader in a church somewhere down
on the river. and his name is Boswick. He was
profane and wicked out of church, but saint in
SO night the White Caps caught him and
made him prav from dark to day light Then
they whipped him, shaved his bead Of all hair,
and with knife cut cross in his bare scalp.
1t is no wonder that he wanted to leave the
country. J. A. II.
Another Chapter In the History.
LEAvENwoRTH. Ind, Sept 23.-All the cases
of punishment inflicted by the White Caps that
have mentioned heretofore have always shown
the regulators to be in the retail business. This
does not do them justice. They do not always
carry business such small scale. Occa-
sionally they thrash a whole neighborhood in one
night.
Take, for instance their recent outraees few
miles northeast of Corydon, where they handled
seven victims and evidently hungered for more
for thew visited several other houses where the
families were not at home
Tney first went to the home of Joel Wright,
who is harmless but poor He was
dragged out of his bed and tied to cherry tree.
This time hickory switches were used, and it
takes hickory switch a long time to wear out
mans back.
just across the road Dink Allen lived He sat
the fence and laughed every lick Wright
got. The two had not been good terms.
After Wright had been cut loose Allen WAC in
vited over. He came unsuspectngly and was
tied to the same tree and lashed. Then Wright,
although smarting from dozen cuts. sat on
the fence aud laughed.
Chris Eggerman got it next, and when his
wife ATTEMPTED to pull the mask from the face
of one of the White Caps he gave her arm such
jerk and twist as to dislocate it.
Will Emily, Harold Cross, f. Lukinson and
c. Clemson were the others punished. The
whipping of Squire Hildebrand near this place.
and Miss Dodge, the spinster school teacher who
wanted to marry young man ten years her
junior were published in the Chronicle at the
time OF their occurrence
The of venerable couple who lived
rented place near Pilot Knob is probably the
most revolving that have yet met with Anton
Gresvere and his wife said to be French,
although the woman claimed to be "Indi ana"
They had lived in their little home for many
years and accumulated a few hundred dollars
"Grandma" Gresvere. she best known,
made herb medicines. which her husband ped
died from house to house, and also told fortunes
An epidemic of hux appeared in the neighbor-
hood. and the ignorant neigh bors ascribed it to
the old woman's witchcraft. So a few weeks ago
she taken out to adjacent pond
with her husband neither having anything
but their night garments They
made to stand in the water for two hours,
then taken out. tied face downward. on the bare
ground. thoir feet being tied to stones and their
hands to sapngs. and whipped with the thorny
branches of the wild rose BUSH The flesh was
terribly cut but not bruised.
After being subjected to this treatment for
three hours they were loaded in a wagon with
their household goods taken to the Ohio
river, four miles away, and left the bank.
They have never been heard from since, but it is
supposed they emigrated down the river in
flatboat which they bought two davs later.
A that is without amusng faaturas